Saint Nino of Georgia and a Solar Eclipse

“He initially opposed his wife’s new religion until he, too, encountered a miracle one day while hunting, riding and “looking over Uplistsikhe” through the woods of Tkhoti mountain when he suddenly was surrounded by a threatening darkness of a solar eclipse.

And the king got alone, and he walked over the hills and woods scared and terrified. He stood at one place and became desperate over his life. And when he recovered his consciousness, and decided to his heart:

“So this is it, I had my god and found no joy. Let, the one preached by Nino, the cross and one that was crucified and does the healing, by his glory, isn’t he powerful enough to save me from this trouble?

As I am lively into a hell and I don’t know, how the whole world was this destroyed, or is it just for me. Let, if this is only for me to be in trouble like this, O God of Nino, enlighten the darkness and show me the place of mine and I will recognize your name, and will erect a pillar of Cross and will respect it and will build a house for me to pray, and will be obedient to Nino’s faith of Rome.

When at last, he called Christ, his wife’s new God, for help the daylight immediately returned. The king jumped down from the horse, raised his hands up to the “eastern sky” and said:

You are the God over all the other Gods and Lord over all the other Lords, God, who is proclaimed by Nino!”